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Horror goes mainstream at Toronto Film Festival

With Get Out a possible Oscar contender and It (above) breaking box office records, it is telling to see so many horror and other such films creeping into the festival's daytime hours.

PHOTO: WARNER BROS

With Get Out (above) a possible Oscar contender and It breaking box office records, it is telling to see so many horror and other such films creeping into the festival's daytime hours.

PHOTO: UNIVERSAL PICTURES

Toronto

EACH night around 11 pm at the Toronto International Film Festival, after the Oscar-bait wannabes and acclaimed documentaries have called it a day, 1,200 filmgoers line up outside the Ryerson Theater for the likes of Yakuza Apocalypse and No One Lives. These aficionados may shy